Breakfast Club

I watched "Breakfast Club" for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Shocking huh? Should have seen it a few years ago, when I actually was beginning high school instead of having left it just recently.

But now, a question. Where the heck did they get the name "Breakfast Club"??? The only mention of it is at the very end, and I was like, "Whoah, where'd that come from?" Random title. Maybe I just missed some deep, ultimate, utterly significant symbolic key to the whole film.

It was one of those movies that reminds you that everyone has problems of their own to deal with. The people who sneer at others ("Oh yeah? When have you ever had it hard? Life has been so easy for you!") for having "it easy" grate on me. They seem to feel they are special for enduring hardship - a sort of self-righteous angst. But they miss the fact that to really know someone you have to be in their position, the "walk a mile in their shoes" kind of thing. Do you really know what someone else is going through?

I can think of many people I'd no clue were undergoing terrible hardships - I'd assumed everything was fine. And, (confession ahead) I might have said some of them have it easy from a quick surface judgement. It makes me feel important, because, apparently, I have it harder.

One of the characters in "Breakfast Club" tells another that he doesn't invite other people into his problems - therefore, other people assume he has it easy when he really doesn't. Sometimes I wonder if it is a good thing, to keep what you're going through to yourself. When Jesus discusses fasting in the gospels, he says to present a positive face on the outside, to keep fasting a secret between you and God. If you reveal your suffering to others, you will have recieved the reward for fasting, because you will gain the respect from men. But if you keep it secret, God will repay you, for He sees that it is for Him and not to glorify yourself among others. A lot of people glorify themselves by sharing their trials with others - "Look at how I have to perservere through such troubles". Perhaps some sufferings are best left between you and God.

Other times, I wonder if you should share with someone else, to rely on someone's strength to get you through bad waters. It's most likely a matter of personal judgement...I'm not really sure.